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Rash, Lowther Park
locality:-   Lowther Park
civil parish:-   Lowther (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY51922393 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5123
10Km square:-   NY52

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 8) 
placename:-  Rash, The
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Rash
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p33, button  goto source
page 33:-  "..."
"On the high wooded bank which runs on the western side of the Lowther, is a fine walk among the trees, called the Rash, which is one of the beautiful appendages of the domains at Lowther."

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